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The Ancient Mayan Calendar is a system of calendars used by the ancient May civilization in pre-Colombian America.
The Mayan calendar details the existence of various ‘cycles,’ so it describes the sacred calendar (tzolkin or bucxok, with a 260-day count), the solar cycle (Haab, composed of 365 days).
The Tzolkin calendar was combined with […]
Indianapolis Police officers rushed into a home where a woman was screaming; after the suspect holding her at knifepoint refused to drop his weapon, they fatally shot him
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After the suspect killed one officer and wounded two others, he was stopped by police after a freeway pursuit; officers shot and killed him after he approached them with a firearm
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The Patriarchs of the Bible are usually defined as being Abraham, his son Isaac, and Isaac’s son Jacob, also named Israel, the ancestor of the Israelites
Biblical Patriarchs play a significant role in religion because it is they who are used as a significant marker by God in revelation and promises.
The term Patriarchs […]
It is believed that the Moon-Eyed people saw very poorly throughout the day, had pale skin, and looked different from Native Americans. It is believed that these mysterious people erected some of the oldest structures in Northern America.
The Cherokee people were one of the ancient Native American cultures that formed the Five Civilized […]
Class B; September 2024; California, Humboldt County
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We sat down with Carnegie Science Observatories theoretical astrophysicist Tony Prio to talk about T Coronae Borealis, the stellar explosion that occurs once every 80 years and is due to light up in the coming months.
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Cosmologists have long hypothesized that the conditions of the early universe could have caused the formation of black holes not long after the Big Bang. These “primordial black holes” have a much wider mass range than those that formed in the later universe from the death of stars, with some even condensed to the width […]
The term “habitable zone” is a broad definition that serves a purpose in our age of exoplanet discovery. But the more we learn about exoplanets, the more we need a more nuanced definition of habitable.
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Want a clear view of a supermassive black hole’s environment? It’s an incredible observational challenge. The extreme gravity bends light as it passes through and blurs the details of the event horizon, the region closest to the black hole. Astronomers using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) just conducted test observations aimed at “deblurring” that view. […]
Near infrared (NIR) hyperspectral imaging is a highly promising detection technology capable of capturing detailed 3D spectral-spatial information, facilitating the identification and characterization of materials and targets based on their spectral signatures.
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Healthy lighting technology is receiving increasingly widespread attention. Traditional solid-state lighting sources utilize photoluminescence down conversion technology to realize ideal white emission. Specifically, yellow phosphors are excited by blue LEDs, or three-primary-color phosphors are excited by ultraviolet LEDs.
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Thousands of light particles can merge into a type of “super photon” under certain conditions. Researchers at the University of Bonn have now been able to use “tiny nano molds” to influence the design of this so-called Bose-Einstein condensate. This enables them to shape the speck of light into a simple lattice structure consisting of […]
To build light-based quantum technologies, scientists and engineers need the ability to generate and manipulate photons as individuals or a few at a time. To build such quantum photonic logic gates that might be used in an optical quantum computer requires a special medium which allows strong and controlled interactions of just a few photons. […]
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